Mahan Air
E189009
Mahan Air is a major Iranian private airline that operates domestic and international flights across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1658563 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahan Air Context triple: [Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, servesAsHubFor, Mahan Air]
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A.
Jin Air
Jin Air is a South Korean low-cost airline that operates domestic and international passenger flights.
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B.
Amakusa Airlines
Amakusa Airlines is a small Japanese regional airline based in Kumamoto Prefecture that operates domestic routes connecting remote islands and regional cities.
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C.
Pacific Airlines
Pacific Airlines is a Vietnamese low-cost carrier operating domestic and regional flights as a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines.
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D.
Rex Airlines
Rex Airlines is an Australian regional airline that operates domestic passenger services across multiple states, connecting major cities with regional and remote communities.
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E.
Alia Airlines
Alia Airlines was the original name of Royal Jordanian, the flag carrier airline of Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahan Air Target entity description: Mahan Air is a major Iranian private airline that operates domestic and international flights across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
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A.
Jin Air
Jin Air is a South Korean low-cost airline that operates domestic and international passenger flights.
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B.
Amakusa Airlines
Amakusa Airlines is a small Japanese regional airline based in Kumamoto Prefecture that operates domestic routes connecting remote islands and regional cities.
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C.
Pacific Airlines
Pacific Airlines is a Vietnamese low-cost carrier operating domestic and regional flights as a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines.
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D.
Rex Airlines
Rex Airlines is an Australian regional airline that operates domestic passenger services across multiple states, connecting major cities with regional and remote communities.
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E.
Alia Airlines
Alia Airlines was the original name of Royal Jordanian, the flag carrier airline of Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airline
ⓘ
company ⓘ |
| airlineType | full-service carrier ⓘ |
| allianceStatus | not member of major global airline alliances ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Tehran ⓘ |
| businessModel | network carrier ⓘ |
| callsign |
Mahan Air
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MAHAN AIR
|
| continentServed |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistration | Iran ⓘ |
| fleetType |
Airbus aircraft
ⓘ
BAe aircraft ⓘ Boeing 7x7 family ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing aircraft
|
| hasCargoService | yes ⓘ |
| hasFocusCity |
Isfahan
ⓘ
Kish Island ⓘ Shiraz, Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
|
| hasPassengerService | yes ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mahan.aero ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tehran ⓘ |
| hub |
Mashhad International Airport
ⓘ
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport ⓘ Mehrabad International Airport ⓘ
surface form:
Tehran Mehrabad International Airport
|
| IATACode | W5 ⓘ |
| ICAOCode | IRM ⓘ |
| industry |
air transport
ⓘ
aviation ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation |
English
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| legalForm | private airline ⓘ |
| market |
Iranian aviation market
ⓘ
regional international aviation market ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the largest private airlines in Iran ⓘ |
| offersClassOfService |
business class
ⓘ
economy class ⓘ |
| operatesInRegion |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ |
| regionServed | Middle East ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction | Civil Aviation Organization of Iran ⓘ |
| safetyRegulator |
Civil Aviation Organization of Iran
ⓘ
surface form:
Iran Civil Aviation Organization
|
| serviceArea |
domestic routes in Iran
ⓘ
international routes ⓘ |
| serviceType |
cargo flights
ⓘ
scheduled passenger flights ⓘ |
| transportMode | air ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mahan Air Description of subject: Mahan Air is a major Iranian private airline that operates domestic and international flights across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
subject surface form:
Mehrabad International Airport